Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany. The new plant will use an "integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical" approach to recycling electric vehicle batteries and expects to recover more than 96 percent of the valuable minerals and metals used in EV batteries.

This facility introduces an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process, expected to achieve a recovery rate exceeding 96%.

The state-of-the-art plant employs a mechanical-hydrometallurgical process, achieving a remarkable 96 percent recovery rate of valuable materials. The facility, representing an investment of tens of millions of euros,

Mercedes-Benz today opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant with an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process making it the first car manufacturer worldwide to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility.

The plant runs on 100% green electricity. Mercedes-Benz already offers reconditioned batteries as spare parts for all of its existing EVs. Mercedes-Benz has opened the doors to an innovative new battery recycling plant in southern Germany that it says “creates a genuine circular economy” for the brand’s electric vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz opened a new EV battery recycling plant in Germany, hoping to reduce the consumption of valuable primary resources significantly.